Working in a Factory that Makes Alcohol

Question :

A Muslim who sells alcohol or drugs - do we call him a Muslim? What is the ruling concerning someone who works in a factory that produces pork products? What if he can find no other job?

Answer:

Selling alcohol or any other unlawful thing is a great evil, and so is working in a factory that produces alcohol and other vile products. Allâh Almighty says:
"Help you one another in virtue, righteousness, and piety; but do not help one another in sin and transgression."

Without a doubt, selling alcohol, drugs or cigarettes comes under the second part of this verse. Allah Almighty says about alcohol:
"O you who believe! Intoxicants (all kinds of alcoholic drinks), gambling, Al-Ansab, and Al-Azlam are an abomination of Shaytan's handiwork. So avoid (strictly all) that (abomination) in order that you may be successful. Shaytan wants only to excite enmity and hatred between you with intoxicants (alcoholic drinks) and gambling, and hinder you from As-Salah (the prayer). So, will you not then abstain?"

In an authentic Hadith , the messenger oh Allah ﷺ cursed In an authentic Hadith, the Messenger of Allah alcoholic drink, the one who consumes it, one who gives it for others to drink, the one who prepares it, the one who has it prepared, the carrier of it, the one it is carried to, the buyer, the seller, and the one who benefits from its profits. In another authentic Hadith, the Prophet ﷺ said :
"Indeed, upon Allah is a covenant that whoever drinks alcohol, he will give him Tinatul-Khibal to drink."

Somebody asked, "O Messenger of Allah, what is Tinatul-Khibal."

He said:
"The (gastric) juices of the inhabitants of the Fire."

Or he said,
"The sweat of the inhabitants of the Fire."

The ruling upon the kind of person you described is that he is a wicked sinner and that his faith is deficient; on the Day of Judgement, he will be under Allah's will; if Allah Almighty wills, He will forgive him; if He Almighty wills, he will punish him if he died before repenting, this is the view of Ahlus-Sunnah wal- Jama'ah. Allah Almighty says:
"Verily, Allah forgives not that partners should be set up with Him in worship, but He forgives, except that (anything else) to whom He pleases."

This, though, is the ruling for someone who does not deem lawful what he is doing. If he deems it lawful, he has disbelieved. His body is not to be washed, nor is he to be prayed for. This is the opinion of all of the scholars, because he is blatantly rejecting Allâh Almighty and His Messenger . The same ruling applies for somebody who deems lawful any act that the scholars agree upon as unlawful homosexuality, usury, fornication, killing somebody wrongfully, not being dutiful to one's parents are all examples.

When somebody perpetrates these wrongs knowing that they are wrong and knowing that he is disobeying Allâh Almighty for committing those wrongs, he is not a disbeliever, but he is al wicked person; he is under Allâh's will on the Day of Judgement, as we have already mentioned in case of someone who drinks alcohol.